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Browns coach on Lovie: 'I've always admired him'

CHAMPAIGN — Late in Friday afternoon's keynote speech at the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Clinic, Cleveland's Hue Jackson offered to answer questions.

With one caveat, that is.

"If anybody asks me about the draft," Jackson said, "I'm running out the door."

The coaches gathered inside the ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn laughed. And didn't ask who the Browns will take with the first overall pick.

But, does he know who he is picking?

"Not yet," Jackson said. "It's a little too soon. We've just got to keep working the process."

The Browns have five of the first 64 picks in the draft.